Principal Geospatial Analyst

Job description

Job responsibilities

The role will sit in the Chief Data Officer (CDO) Group. This opportunity will consolidate and expand the geospatial skills of the organisation and leverage pre-existing dataflows and insights.

You will lead geospatial programmes and projects with an unparalleled opportunity to make your mark on government policy and the future of UK health protection.

We are looking for a candidate to:

• Support the development and implementation of the UKHSA Geospatial Unified Approach
• Lead high profile geospatial projects for UKHSA, by working flexibly and collaboratively across the organisation. This is a technical management role, where thought leadership as well as people management will be essential for success
• Provide technical expertise and leadership to develop and maintain UKHSA geospatial systems and infrastructure
• Lead the development of the geospatial component of the UKHSA Enterprise Data Model to support public health surveillance and response, aligned with modern data operations and data management principles
• Deliver high quality geospatial analytical and visualisation outputs for surveillance and response
• Successfully manage your time and the priorities of your team, working at pace to progress multiple competing tasks, and manage expectations from customers and colleagues
• Communicate and clearly present key insights, up to the most senior levels, from a variety of qualitative and quantitative sources
• Provide challenge and leadership to UKHSA as an organisation
• Develop good working relationships internally and externally
• Undertake team line management responsibilities as required and adopt project management principles to ensure timely delivery of products

This post offers superb development opportunities and the chance to gain exposure across a broad range of policy areas.

The duties/responsibilities listed above describe the post as it is at present and is not intended to be exhaustive. The Job holder is expected to accept reasonable alterations and additional tasks of a similar level that may be necessary.

Essential Criteria:

• Experience of leading geospatial data and platform engineering project delivery at pace, including: the build of geospatial ETL data pipelines and systems, system integration of geospatial data and geoprocessing services, making spatial big data accessible for analysis, the design, development and delivery of enterprise spatial databases
• Cloud engineering experience developing geospatial in AWS or Azure
• Advanced technical experience using one or more of Esri, QGIS, R/Python, GitHub/Lab, JIRA and Confluence
• Experience of applying Agile project management principles to lead complex geospatial project at a senior level. This includes changing and improving, making effective decisions, communicating and influencing, managing a quality service and delivering at pace.
• Experience of managing junior members of a team for project delivery or in a line management role
• Evidence of very effective verbal and written communication skills, being able to turn analysis into accessible and engaging products, and presenting them to stakeholders
• Define and advocate geospatial data engineering best practice, standards and quality assurance
• Champion geospatial data engineering

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

Stage 1 - Application & Sift:

You will be required to complete an application form. You will be assessed on the 8 essential criteria listed, and this will be in the form of a:

• Application form (Employer/ Activity history section on the application)

• Up to 750-word Statement of Suitability

This should outline how you consider your skills, experience, and knowledge, provide evidence of your suitability for the role, with reference to the essential criteria.

The Application form and Statement of Suitability will be marked together.

Longlisting: In the event of a large number of applications we will longlist into 3 piles of:

• Meets all essentialcriteria

• Meets some essential criteria

• Meets no essential criteria

Piles Meets all essentialcriteriawill be moved through to the shortlisting stage.

Shortlisting: In the event of a large number of applications we will shortlist on:

• Experience of leading geospatial data and platform engineering project delivery at pace, including: data pipelines and systems, the build of geospatial ETL, system integration of geospatial data and geoprocessing services, making spatial big data accessible for analysis, the design, development and delivery of enterprise spatial databases

Please do not exceed 750 words. We will not consider any words over and above this number. If you are successful at this stage, you will progress to an interview. Unfortunately, late applications will not be considered.

Please note you will not be able to upload your CV. You must complete the application form in as much detail as possible. Please do not email us your CV.

Feedback will not be provided at this stage.

Stage 2: Interview (success profiles)

You will be invited to a (single) remote interview.

Behaviours, technical and experience will be tested at interview.

The Behaviour's tested during the interview stage will be:

• Changing and Improving (lead)
• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing
• Managing a Quality Service
• Delivering at Pace

Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Location

This role is being offered as homeworking or office based/hybrid working at any of our Core HQ's or Scientific Campuses.

If based at one of our scientific campuses, you will be required to have a Counter Terrorism Check security vetting check as a minimum. For meaningful National Security Vetting checks to be carried out individuals need to have lived in the UK for a sufficient period of time. You should normally have been resident in the United Kingdom for the last 3 years as the role requires Counter Terrorism Check (CTC) clearance. In exceptional circumstances UK residency less than the outlined periods may not necessarily bar you from gaining national security vetting and applicants should contact the Vacancy Holder/Recruiting Manager listed in the advert for further advice.

Eligibility Criteria

Open to all external applicants (anyone) from outside the Civil Service (including by definition internal applicants).

Security Clearance Level Requirement

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.

Person Specification

Application form and Statement of Suitability

Essential

• Application form and Statement of Suitability

Behaviours

Essential

• Changing and Improving
• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing
• Managing a Quality Service
• Delivering at Pace

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

UK Health Security Agency

Address

Homeworking or Any Core HQ or Scientific Campus - Birmingham, Chilton, Leeds, Liverpool, Porton, London

10 South Colonnade

London

E14 4PU

Employer's website

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-health-security-agency (Opens in a new tab)